The glass business can be capital intensive, and experimenting can end up being surprisingly costly. The raw material alone is expensive, and each processing step adds value to the glass. A mistake or a problem later on in the processing can be quite costly. Especially since finding the solution can take a lot of time. It doesn’t have to be that way!
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How to get a perfect break test on 1/8 glass
To meet the break test standard EN12150-1 for 1/8” glass which is about 3 mm thick, the stress level has to be few MPa higher than in 4 mm (5/32”) glass. To get this stress level, the cooling pressure has to be about double compared to 4 mm glass and the glass temperature before quenching has to be about 5 degrees higher than for 4 mm glass.